Night Storm

This has been hanging around for a few years waiting for me to finish it and for some reason the mood struck this week.  

Night Storm
24 x 18 Mixed Media 

Beach Bones on Talbot Island

Beach Bones
11 x 14 Oil on Canvas 

Fog Cover

●Fog Cover

40 x 30 Oil on Canvas 

Morning Mist Redux

Morning Mist on Egan's Creek
16 x 20 Oil on Canvas Panel

Sometimes you just have to keep painting on something until you get what you want.  The bottom left painting was the original of this work from a photo I snapped on a morning walk past Egan's creek.  I really wasn't fond of it so I painted over it and ended up with the bottom right painting.  Still not happy....

I scraped that off and continued on to the re-painting above.  This photo doesn't quiet capture the color in the sky and water as it was quite overcast when I took it, but I think I am finally done with this work.

 

Rain Garden

We are having daily afternoon and evening thunderstorms which transform the look of the gardens into a kind of veiled shimmery presence.  This image was perfect for exploring the possibilities of watercolor, ink, and acrylic paint on absorbent ground canvas panels.  The painting is finished with UVLS polymer varnish making it frameable without glass.  This process, from the making of the panels to the final varnishing has been a comforting way to create during this lockdown period.

Rain Garden
37 x 34 Mixed Media on Canvas Panel

Just because...

The Bowie Nebula
20 x 15 Watercolor and Acrylic on Canvas panel 

Still playing around...

Untitled
15 x 15 Watercolor on canvas board 

Beethoven's Nebula

Pure playtime on canvas board with absorbent ground.

Beethoven's Nebula
24 x 18 Mixed Media on Canvas Panel

High Key Painting

A group of artists I meet with have been doing an art challenge using a three deck card system with different directions for elements of painting that had to be incorporated in the work.  Each of us took one card from each deck and were required to follow the instructions on at least two of the cards to create a piece of work.  The cards I pulled loosely required me to (1) choose a color scheme, and (2) paint the work in a high key.  So... these two pieces are using a split complement color scheme in each and using a palette of only high key in those colors.  Painting high key was definitely a challenge for me but I finally liked what came out of the process and controlled my urge to add darker compositional elements. 

●Moonrise
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Mill Study
20 x 16 Oil on Canvas 

Series Done!

The final painting in the series for the artist of the month show (hopefully still happening in October) is done!  I painted twelve, 12 x 12 oil paintings for the show and this one below is number 12.  It is a loose memory work of the cranes at JaxPort.

●Port Cranes
12 x 12 Oil on Canvas 

Off the easel

●Wind in the Canna Garden

30 x 30 oil on canvas

Experiments on Watercolor Canvas

I found a few 18 x 24 sheets of watercolor canvas in my studio and have been playing with them this week while avoiding the painting on my easel.....  These are watercolor/ink/acrylic/oil pastel on watercolor canvas.  They are sort of wrinkly still as I haven't mounted or stretched them yet.

●Fantasy Garden
24 x 18 Mixed media on watercolor canvas 

Storm Warning
24 x 18 Mixed Media on Watercolor Canvas